"The danger of simplifying a medical issue for public consumption is that we may come to believe that our simplification is an appropriate representation of the biological reality. We may forget that the science is not adequately described, or ambiguous, even if the public health policy seems to be set in stone. In the case of diet and heart disease, Ancel Keys’s hypothesis that cholesterol is the agent of atherosclerosis was considered the simplest hypothesis, because cholesterol is found in atherosclerosic plaques and because cholesterol was relatively easy to measure. But as the measurement technology became increasingly more sophisticated, every one of the complications that arose has implicated carbohydrates rather than fat as the dietary agent of heart disease. " - Gary Taubes, "Good Calories, Bad Calories"
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:07:29 +0000